Backup drive power management

Is there any way to have the Time Machine backup drive software spin down the backup drive between backups? I have a SimpleTech Simple Drive (2TB), and it spins continuously.

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Some externals will respond to the +Put the hard disk(s) to sleep ...+ setting in +System Preferences > Energy Saver,+ so try that first.
If that doesn't help, consult the documentation that came with the drive, or contact the maker. Many have a built-in sleep or spin-down feature -- some can be adjusted, some can't.

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Crashes with external drives (power management problem?)

Everything worked well in Tiger on my first gen MBP. Since i switched to Leopard and now Snow, and a new UNI MBP in december 08 I have so many external drive issues.
USB drives just disappear and power off (from the system not electrical) for no reason, mostly when connected to USB hubs. I've tried various hubs including the powered ones. But as soon as i go over two USB devices in the provided ports my problems start.. It feels like not enough juice is getting through those ports on my MBP. I never have a problem if i just connect 2 devices into the MBP, but it's not enough (i have 5x1tb external drives).
Also the same with the express34 slot.. Everything was fine under Tiger and my old MBP, But now i get the grey wall of death so many times when connecting 2x esata 1TB drives. The system is so unstable with multiple drives both USB and. I'm currently working as a pro Photographer on assignment in Asia and these stability are starting to become a big problem.
God forbid i'm even considering a switch back to windows for reliability, (yes, i did use the words windows and reliability in the same sentence)
Does anybody else experience problems with multiple drives through leopard/snow leopard via Apple notebooks? I would love to hear some users experiences and hopefully find a solution to my problem.. In every other way the system works like a charm.
I will post in 2 forums because i'm not sure if software or hardware related.
Thanks, any help is appreciated.

It can't be the drives because they get swapped monthly when i hand them in.. Varies brands and external boxes but always 1TB drives.. I have tried 2 different powered hubs and still experience the same problems, however those were generic ones i picked up in Asia (all made in Taiwan right? (rhetorical:))
Ok, maybe for a last try i will purchase a branded hub and see if that helps. I still can't get the thought out of my head that it's a power problem in the MBP logic board, is it possible? I say this because the esata drives behave in a similar fashion via the expresscard.

Thinkpad L520 Power Management Issues

Hi all,
I have to report several issues with my Thinkpad (Core i5 2520M).
Both seem to be related to power management, that's why I decided to put them in one thread.
The problems occur on battery and with ac power connected, I have a 90 Watt power supply.
I am running Windows 7 x64 on my laptop, and I've applied all patches from Microsoft Update and Lenovo System Update.
All drivers are up to date. I am using the latest BIOS file (1.20).
The first problem is: My Thinkpad does not automatically increase CPU speed, it is always staying at 800 Mhz.
Even running Prime95 does not trigger some upscaling.
I experienced the same behaviour under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which I booted to check the problem.
In Windows, I set all power management options to full power (Windows Energy Control Panel and Lenovo Power Manager as well), still no change.
A complete BIOS reset (with removing the CMOS battery) did not change the situation.
The only workaround so far is, to run a software called "ThrottleStop", and to uncheck the box saying "BD PROCHOT". After doing so, the CPU is scaling up to 2.5 Ghz, but still does not enter Turbo mode.
The program has to be re-run after every boot to enable upscaling.
The second issue is:
I have bought a secondary hard drive bay, and the containing disk keeps spinning down after a few seconds of idle. (Yes, seconds!) The disk is working fine, does not have SMART errors and does not show this behaviour in another laptop and as an external USB drive.
I disabled all power savings options again (Window, Power Manager, and Disk AAPM), which could cause such behaviour, but still no luck. The first hard drive is an SSD, therefore I can't tell, if this drive is also affected by that behaviour.
UPDATE: After booting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I can verify that the behaviour is identical to Windows.
Since both of these problems seem to be related to some part of the power management, I am wondering if there is some bug in the BIOS itself or maybe some faulty system driver.
Any help on that would be appreciated, since normally working with the Thinkpad is rather annoying, considering the slow speed and the constant spin-up/down of the drive.
Best,
schalli

LennyL wrote:
Hi,
everybody suggests "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdxxxx". This does NOT work. At all. The Load Cycle Count keeps going up. The 2nd HDD (in the CD/hdd caddy) powers down every few seconds, then up again.
I found this works: "hdparm -S 25 /dev/sdxxxxx" (change sdXXX in sda, sdb, or whatever relevant to your case). It sets spindown every 25*5 seconds. Second hdd is practically always on and LoadCycleCount remains constant.
I am also using "hdparam -S 0" to disable drive power management entirely.
LennyL wrote:
Please Please can you check something for me?
I have two hard drives (second is in aftermarket caddy), but it seems the second hd (the one in the caddy) is NOT seen by BIOS at boot. So I can only boot from the internal hdd. After booting, the second hdd is seen by Linux, SATA link reports 3Gb, no issues, all is fine.
Same here, the secondary hard drive is not seen in BIOS or in the BIOS boot menu.
After booting Windows/Linux, the drive works fine.
UPDATE: Even in good ol' DOS, the drive is seen. (I just booted DOS for a firmware update of an SSD drive, which was installed in the hard drive caddy.)
Where did you get the BIOS v1.32? The latest on the Lenovo Website and in System Update is 1.20..
Can you verify something for me too?
On my L520, Turbo Mode does not work at all, how about yours?
You can verify under Windows using hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/ ).
For Linux, there's http://code.google.com/p/i7z/ , but you'll have to compile it.
Best regards,
schalli

X200 Power Management Issue

Hello Everyone,
First time posting here in the Lenovo Community, hoping some of you can provide guidance.
When we place any of these computers into Standby Mode, they will succesfully enter Standby. The next time we try to enter standby mode, they will not enter, it will simply hang. The only way we can successfully enter Standby again is if we reboot the machine.
So, long story short, the laptop will only go into standby after a reboot.
We use System Center Configuration Manager to deploy our X200, T400 and W500 laptops. We used to be running X61, T61 and T61p's, and never had this issue. All drivers are up to date and we're running XP.
Is there any trick to getting standby to run properly? We have the Power management driver, Power Manager and the System interface driver installed.
Any desktop deployment people have any luck with this?
Thanks,
Sean

Its a thinkpad x200 7454-CTO
Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8400 (2.26GHz)
Vista business (32 bit)
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 DIMM)
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm
Intel GMA x4500
Integrated Fingerprint reader
Integrated Bluetooth
Integrated Camera
Intel wifi link 5300
Enhanced 9-cell battery

[solved][laptop-mode-tools] hard drive power settings not applied

I've used the laptop-mode-tools now for quite some time. However, recently the power management settings are not applied anymore. Possibly since updating to systemd...
My laptop-mode.conf looks as follows:
CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT=1
# Power management for HD (hdparm -B values)
BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=254
LM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=254
NOLM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=254
However, even after doing a systemctl restart laptop-mode-tools.service I always get
$ sudo hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = 96
Setting it manually works:
$ sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
APM_level = 254
$ sudo hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = 254
Of course, the settings are lost upon rebooting in this case.
Any idea where the problem could be?
Last edited by rggjan (2012-10-08 12:25:04)

I apologize if it is bad style to answer to a post marked as [solved] but:
Same problem here!
HDParm-settings are not applied on boot by LMT.
laptop-mode.conf:
# Should laptop mode tools control the hard drive power management settings?
# Set to 0 to disable
CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT="auto"
# Power management for HD (hdparm -B values)
BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=100
LM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=200
NOLM_AC_HD_POWERMGMT=254
# hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
APM_level = 96
Any ideas or solutions on this so far?
And why is this post marked as 'solved'?
edit:
1.) manual set hdparm-settings survive reboot but not suspend!
2.) no difference between CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT="auto" or "1"
3.)
# systemctl status laptop-mode
laptop-mode.service - Laptop Mode Tools
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/laptop-mode.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Do 2013-01-24 14:05:20 CET; 8min ago
Process: 664 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/laptop_mode init auto (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
4.) pointed out that this seems to be a bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33262 as systemd does not restore apm values on wake up.
Last edited by renegat (2013-03-09 11:01:42)

Power management problem on S540 still update of april, 18 2015

Hi, since last driver update (power management driver) , my S540 go on sleep very often and aleatory While I'm working on... Someone have the same trouble ?
I tried to restore earlier the system, update the driver etc.... always the same problem.
It's impossible to work with my s540...
Francis

LennyL wrote:
Hi,
everybody suggests "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdxxxx". This does NOT work. At all. The Load Cycle Count keeps going up. The 2nd HDD (in the CD/hdd caddy) powers down every few seconds, then up again.
I found this works: "hdparm -S 25 /dev/sdxxxxx" (change sdXXX in sda, sdb, or whatever relevant to your case). It sets spindown every 25*5 seconds. Second hdd is practically always on and LoadCycleCount remains constant.
I am also using "hdparam -S 0" to disable drive power management entirely.
LennyL wrote:
Please Please can you check something for me?
I have two hard drives (second is in aftermarket caddy), but it seems the second hd (the one in the caddy) is NOT seen by BIOS at boot. So I can only boot from the internal hdd. After booting, the second hdd is seen by Linux, SATA link reports 3Gb, no issues, all is fine.
Same here, the secondary hard drive is not seen in BIOS or in the BIOS boot menu.
After booting Windows/Linux, the drive works fine.
UPDATE: Even in good ol' DOS, the drive is seen. (I just booted DOS for a firmware update of an SSD drive, which was installed in the hard drive caddy.)
Where did you get the BIOS v1.32? The latest on the Lenovo Website and in System Update is 1.20..
Can you verify something for me too?
On my L520, Turbo Mode does not work at all, how about yours?
You can verify under Windows using hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/ ).
For Linux, there's http://code.google.com/p/i7z/ , but you'll have to compile it.
Best regards,
schalli

Power Manager & Battery Charging Problem

With upgrading Power Manager 3.05 to 3.11a, my battery may not charge even if it is plugged in. I have custom thresholds: 77% & 93%. However, it is not charging now, even through the battery is at 45% (which is below the threshold of 77%). The Power icon in the Notification Area of the taskbar shows that is "45% available (plugged in, not charging)"
When this problem happens, I can get it to work properly for a while again by unplugging the AC adapter and plugging it back in. I have BIOS version 7UET82WW (3.12 ), but I believe the problem existed with the previous BIOS version and Power Manager 3.11.
Detailed battery information from Lenovo ThinkVantage Toolbox:
Product Version: 6.0.5449.31
Main Battery
Battery Name:
42T4653
Manufacturer Name:
LGC
Manufacture Date:
12-10-2008
First Used Date:
02-18-2009
Type:
LION - Lithium Ion
Bar-coding Number:
1ZFBT91F0LU
Battery Serial Number:
12105
Current Charge Percentage:
45
Designed Capacity Percentage:
100
Charge Status:
No Activity
Current Charge:
25.39 Wh
Full Charged Capacity:
56.65 Wh
Designed Capacity:
56.16 Wh
Designed Voltage:
10.80 V
Voltage:
11.33 V
Battery Current:
0.00 A
Temperature:
23 C
Cycle Count:
90
Lenovo Thinkpad T400 Model 6474AH4
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

I have it set now to always fully charge to 100%, but it is not charging at 95% available. I have even uninstalled and reinstalled the Hotkey package, System Interface driver, Power Management driver, and Power Manager.
Oops. It might be normal behavior. I'll report again later.
Lenovo Thinkpad T400 Model 6474AH4
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

I had to replace my hard drive twice in my power mac g5. Luckily, I had the foresight to install a backup drive the second time around. Has anybody had HD problems? Is it the Power Mac or I just lucked out on some bad drives.

I had to replace my hard drive twice in my power mac g5. Luckily, I had the foresight to install a backup drive the second time around. Has anybody had HD problems? Is it the Power Mac or I just lucked out on some bad drives.

Hi Leon,
There are many well known G5 problems, but being hard on Hard Drives is not one of them.
How old & what brand/model drives were they?

Power Management Driver wont install in Windows 7

Hi All, I've been trying to get my blue Fn keys to work on my recently purchased SL500. Volume and screen brightness keys work (but no on-screen display), however Fn+F3 & F5 do nothing, as does the blue ThinkVantage button. Installed drivers via System Update, however every time I get the message "Package did not install - ThinkPad Power Management Driver for SL Series". Power Manager is installed and running but the driver is not listed under Program & Features. I'm guessing the lack of this driver is the problem. Anyone else seen this or have a fix ? Thanks.

Please visit: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds014985 but don't download the most current version (3.89.0100) at the top. If you look at the readme, you'll see that the SL500 is not included in the supported systems list.
Instead, scroll downwards to the version table and have a look at the readme for v3.88.0000. You'll see your machine in the supported list, so you could give that one a try, if you want.
Regards.

How to turn on the wi-fi on x121e without Thinkpad power management driver.

The onscreen function key features generally depend on that driver. The thing is on my netbook the driver causes USB devices to fail after a few hibernations. Anybody in the know? Thanks.

Power Manager is the only software to view wireless device setting.
Install new version of Power Manager and also update the BIOS for the USB issue
Download Power Manager software from the mentioned below web link.
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8mu417ww.exe
BIOS update can be download from the mentioned below web link.
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/8quj08us.exe
Best Regards,
Tanuj
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Thinkpad yoga S1 Power Managment driver disabled

Hi,
I have since a few days my Power managment driver which doesn't recognize the battery any more.
I have checked in the Windows Device Manager, which says: "Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)"
Do you know where does the problem come from?
Can it be related to a very recent Windows update I have made? (I'm on Windows 8.1)
Thanks in advance.
Solved!
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Problem solved by reinstalling the driver.

How Can I get v1.52 of "ThinkPad Power Management driver for Windows"?

The subject says it all: How can I get v1.52 of the "ThinkPad Power Management driver for Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Me, 98 SE - ThinkPad" driver? Since installing v1.53 I've been experiencing screen issues (screen goes dark, and it's very hard to get the screen brightness back to normal) that seem to be tied to my T40p entering sleep mode / turning off the screen.
I want to see if reverting back to v1.52 fixes these problems.
Thanks,
RocketDude
RocketDude
T400s 2801-CTO

Nilst,
Issue has been escalated however currently pending the team to fix it. Will update once I have news from them.
*Non Lenovo employee*
I have a Y2P (i5) ... Feel free to ping me if you want me to test some applications with your Y2P if you have the same model. I don't mind keep doing recovery on it if needed .... =)

Update Retriever - Error Downloading Power Management Driver

There is an error in Update Retriever, when I try to download the Lenovo Power Management Driver 1.67.00.02 (giku06ww).
The error message is:
1 update failed to be downloaded.
For me it looks like the XML file does not contain a valid CRC information for the file.

Found a workaround: (I am not sure, why the CRCs are incorrect. It is possible, that the current driver is compromised!)
download manually the files for the power management driver:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/giku06ww.exe
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/giku06ww.txt
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/giku06ww_2_.xml
There is an error in the XML file, the CRC sum and file size is not correct. calculate the SHA1 CRCs for the files and change the sizes:
      <File>
        <Name>giku06ww.exe</Name>
        <CRC>C9803CFF3B6A8A096AAED2737FB6D6FD3B63B5CA</CRC>
        <Size>1278493</Size>
      </File>
    </Installer>
    <Readme default="EN">
      <File id="EN">
        <Name>giku06ww.txt</Name>
        <CRC>80B709F72A4A9BDA3A0A98A31CD58EE188E412B9</CRC>
        <Size>32128</Size>
      </File>
the file should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?pcdDescriptor version="0230"?>
<Package name="IBMPM_W8" id="giku06ww" version="1.67.00.02" hide="False">
<Title default="EN">
    <Desc id="EN">Lenovo Power Management Driver - XP [32]/Vista/7/8 [32,64]</Desc>
</Title>
<DetectVersion type="Registry">
    <Registry>
      <Key>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Power Management Driver</Key>
      <ValueName>DisplayVersion</ValueName>
    </Registry>
</DetectVersion>
<Summary default="EN" />
<Severity type="3" />
<SeverityOverride type="2">
    <Not>
      <_RegistryKey>
        <Key>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Power Management Driver</Key>
      </_RegistryKey>
    </Not>
</SeverityOverride>
<Vendor>Lenovo</Vendor>
<ExtractCommand>giku06ww.exe /VERYSILENT /DIR=%PACKAGEPATH% /EXTRACT="YES"</ExtractCommand>
<ReleaseDate>2013-06-19</ReleaseDate>
<DiskSpaceNeeded>30000000</DiskSpaceNeeded>
<Reboot type="3" />
<Install rc="0" type="cmd" default="EN">
    <Cmdline id="EN">%PACKAGEPATH%\Setup.exe -S -SMS</Cmdline>
</Install>
<ManualInstall type="cmd" default="EN">
    <Cmdline id="EN">%PACKAGEPATH%\Setup.exe</Cmdline>
</ManualInstall>
<Uninstall />
<DetectInstall>
    <_RegistryKeyValue type="REG_SZ">
      <Key>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Power Management Driver</Key>
      <KeyName>DisplayVersion</KeyName>
      <Version>1.67.00.02^</Version>
    </_RegistryKeyValue>
</DetectInstall>
<Dependencies>
    <And>
      <_OS>
        <OS>VS-BUS.*</OS>
        <OS>VS-ENT.*</OS>
        <OS>VS-HOMEBASIC.*</OS>
        <OS>VS-HOMEPREM.*</OS>
        <OS>VS-HOMEULT.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-ENT.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-HOMEBASIC.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-HOMEPREM.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-PRO.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-STARTER.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN7-ULT.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN8.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN8-ENT.*</OS>
        <OS>WIN8-PRO.*</OS>
        <OS>WXP-PRO.SP3</OS>
      </_OS>
      <Or>
        <_PnPID><![CDATA[*IBM0055]]></_PnPID>
        <_PnPID><![CDATA[*IBM0068]]></_PnPID>
        <_PnPID><![CDATA[*LEN0068]]></_PnPID>
        <_PnPID><![CDATA[*LEN0168]]></_PnPID>
      </Or>
      <Or>
        <Or>
          <Not>
            <_Bios>
              <Level>GDET*</Level>
            </_Bios>
          </Not>
        </Or>
        <Or>
          <And>
            <_Bios>
              <Level>GDET*</Level>
            </_Bios>
            <Or>
              <_Coreq name="BIOS_GDUJ">
                <Version>1.07.1.07^</Version>
              </_Coreq>
              <Not>
                <_Bios>
                  <Level>GDET0*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET1*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET2*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET30*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET31*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET32*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET33*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET34*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET35*</Level>
                  <Level>GDET36*</Level>
                </_Bios>
              </Not>
            </Or>
          </And>
        </Or>
      </Or>
    </And>
</Dependencies>
<Files>
    <Installer>
      <File>
        <Name>giku06ww.exe</Name>
        <CRC>C9803CFF3B6A8A096AAED2737FB6D6FD3B63B5CA</CRC>
        <Size>1278493</Size>
      </File>
    </Installer>
    <Readme default="EN">
      <File id="EN">
        <Name>giku06ww.txt</Name>
        <CRC>80B709F72A4A9BDA3A0A98A31CD58EE188E412B9</CRC>
        <Size>32128</Size>
      </File>
    </Readme>
</Files>
</Package>
The update can be imported into update retriever manually and it must be assigned to systems (by default no machine types are assigned).

Power Management Driver wont install - SL500, Windows 7

Hi All, I've been trying to get my blue Fn keys to work on my recently purchased SL500. Volume and screen brightness keys work (but no on-screen display), however Fn+F3 & F5 do nothing, same with the blue ThinkVantage button. I've installed the drivers via System Update, however each time I get the message "Package did not install - ThinkPad Power Management Driver for SL Series". The version number is 1.44. Power Manager is installed and running but the driver is not listed under Program & Features. I'm guessing the lack of this driver is the problem. Anyone else seen this or have a fix ? Thanks.

Please visit: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds014985 but don't download the most current version (3.89.0100) at the top. If you look at the readme, you'll see that the SL500 is not included in the supported systems list.
Instead, scroll downwards to the version table and have a look at the readme for v3.88.0000. You'll see your machine in the supported list, so you could give that one a try, if you want.
Regards.

Power management driver for xp?

hello, where can I find power management driver for xp - I founbd lenovo site with drivers but there is no power management driver,
michal
Solved!
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Try the S10e driver at http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/en/DriversDownloads/drivers_show_979.html

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